UNCLE SAM'S NAVY. THE PRESENT ANDO THE FUTURE WAR FLEET. Cid Qonstructor Wilson's Estimates of the Life of the Vesseln Now In Use-—A etter The New Cruse, Nasy In Prospect Wasniroron, Sept. 27. Chief Constructor Vilson oeilimates the active life of the wooden wir ships our present follows: The Tenhessee (the only one classed as first vite), sl the Omaha and Vaondalla, "sccond rates, and the Mohican, third rota, ten the Lancaster and Brooklyn, second rates, and Adams, Albancey, FEssdx, Enterprise, Nipsie, Talla- poosa and Yantje, third re the Hartford, Richmond and Pensacola, second rates, and the Juniata, Ossippe, Quinnebaug, a, Marion, broquois and Kear sarge, tind rates, five years. These, together witli the fron Monocacy, Alert and Ranger, third rates, and the Michigan, Palos and Pinta, fourth rates, constitute the avail- alle fighting farce of the present navy. The most poweriul of their weapons are the con verted guns, having a range of perhaps two miles—axcellent arms for operatic wooden ships and ancient fort fir shitdling towns, but ineflici modern armor. The very be is held by our val authorities the times as a reliance for offer in aetond warfare, The list of prises more than a dozen monite of them f= condition for service at navy ns Trenton, X onthe; yoanrs; #1 the at HX Yours, Bwatara, Gale: ps 18 against none this , Dud in showing tl yn anthors in tas aval powers Val pow or the xpoctad 0 be aflo wls,. Th two gun boats, ong and one erudsars th 1 is already completed ar mau dhe Atianta, THE trial trip and her in being tested, while the Boston, 3.000 tons, and the Chi ALO, £99, are well advanced in construction Five of the armors aro of the double turret monitor class, cach designed to éarry four heavy high powerad o ing We-pounrd shells with a possi ange of fen mils. These shi planned ten Years ag Doubtless if plann | today some change would be made, but they of al and harbor Perey Though n igred for they can if Cmergeneies be id, their seaworthiness having boch well tested In the past. Congress has now supplied the mand for finishing these ships, and the work is progressing r spidly The Miantonomoh, 3515 tons, will bo ready for service this year ; has her engines in place, and is nearly ready for her armor, while the Terror, Amphitrite and Monadnock, 3,815 tous cach, are now ro- ceiving their machinery With all these afloat the United States as a naval power will outrank Brazil, Chili, the Argentine Republic, China, Japan, Greece, ty, Portugal wl Bweden, and will be abreast of Turkey, Spain, Holland and Denmark. Bhe will still be outranked by England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Russa ATLANTA armament vodsnls throw I Were are never 1 by Comunodore Wilson 1 report the best ® Spoken last of L599 “Xi crusing iy in sols s #0 the | aritan, 6,000 tons, veswely Accident on the B. and 0, Barrons, Sept, 27. —The passengor train on the Philadelphia extension of the Balti. more and Ohio railroad, coming south last evening, met with a serious accident. At Canton, the locomdtive, No. 770, exploded with terrific force. The train came to a sudden stop), and when the steam cleared away it was found that the locomotive was ruined and the force of the concussion was so great that the baggage car had felescoped the foremost passenger coach, injuring its two occupants slightly, Thelr names could not be loaned, The engineer, Jeremiah Morn ingstar, received a severe scalp wound, while Fireman Charles Lizer was terribly scalded and will die, Kate Fiold Indorsed. _ Bat Lake Ovry, Sept. 27. James BB, Moe. Kean post, G. A. R., has formally oxpressod val of Kate Field's investigation of ormoulsm, and commended her to the com- mander-in-chief as specially fitted to present the facts in the case through the G. A. R. to the country... They roquestéd the command. ar-in-chief to commend her in the good work to the comrades every where, SOME PENSION FACTS, Commissioner Black Submits His Ane nual Btatement. Wasiizoron, Bept. 22--The comm sioner of pensions, under date of Sept. 21, has filed with the secretary of the interior his re- port of the operations®f the pension bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, The report shows that on June 30 last there were 05,783 pensioners on the rolls, composed of 265,864 army invalids, 80.108 army widows, relatives: widows, minor children and dependent 1.578 navy noo invalids, minor children, ete., and 1, There of survivors of the war of loss during the year in this class of 3.815 Twenty-four orginal claims have been filled in this class during the year; 504 new widow 2,954 navy AP vere * EHrvivors of wore 13.307 widows the war of 15132 1813, showing a 8) 5 pensioners have appoared on the rolls; 4 STH during rs were added to the rol rer } § Wers drop 1 from the HOW Pelsion the year; 2,200 wy a pensioners’ estorad to the rolls; 292, umm rods , denving 1 it ine 680 1 ount of death, remarriage, frauds, { On ots wo to the roll o annual average each | m ix 2122.23. a gain of the avi ra 13 of the prec 844,708.10 vidi agen il value is ing an increase in annual ML5L The amount paid for pensi the year was 3,97 R31L.61, the in the amount paid and the annual + during £0 renee resenting ti paid this ye N E w i i Suceessinl Fxperiments With the New Cunningham Method. arsenal grom line with yards § Ving servi this with great adv than 300 or 600 rds m shore said, that th mving services mum distance, the CAN i used by pended ¢ ts Hf » carry a line to vessels in distress, is about The testa of the ind ham rocket were merely preliminary to th ough tests which will be made this fall on the Sandy r proving grounds prove or disp effectiveness and ace racy in deliveris a nt tar i 1g 0 yards HX) an KE} V8 The Sea Serpent Again, New Your, Se } Yard to the starboard the of the tow boat came to the spot it di away from and a fittla tly in An sappeared of the beat, and dire path an approaching tow boat and was wot sen to rise geain Played at Neing Dead, Bosrox Bept 7 Willian Lowden, aged 8, died yesterday in great agony from injuries inflicted by older boys while at play. Willie was playing at being dead and an excava tion in the sidewalk served as a grave. His vored him into this and placed a heavy bick of p granite upon his stomach. While he in situation and unable to help himself they jumped upon the block until Willie's body was covered with bruises. During the sickness which fol. lowed the boy was etherized and his stomach opened when it was ascertained that re. covery was impossible, companions lk ing Ving Wis this Walked Of the What. Cixerxyari, Bopt. 27. «Two unknown men, suppossd to be commercisl travelers, wore drowned from the Big Sandy wharf boat at 10 o'clock last night. The steamer St. Law rence was lying at the wharf waiting for the hour of midaight, when she should start on her trip to Maysville. The gang plank, it appears, was not in the usual place and the night was dark ond rainy. The men walked off the wharf boat into the river and were drowned, about ten minutes apart. The peo ple aboard the steamer made efforts to rescue the two men, but without avail Death From Choke Damp, Grasaow, Sept, 27, By the esonpo of the noxious vapor known as choke damp from the monster blast at the Loohtyneside quar ries Batuniay it bs estimated that sixty Bons were overcome temporarily, A others are in an extremely critionl fow among them a ne or reporter. Bo fw seven deaths have from the blast, ¢ JUSTIN M'CARTHY ARRIVES, A Housing Welcome Kxtended to the Home Rule Advocate. g New Youxk, Sept. Justin MeCarthy, the homo ruler, ex-member of parliament and author, wag a passenger on the steamer Britannic, which amived Lo this after. noon, The Irish Parliamentary Fund committee, who intend to give a big dinner at tho Hoffman house in JUSTIN MCCARTHY. honor of the home ruler, were informed yes. terday by the proprietors of the Hoffuian house that a snit resery od at the hotel for Mr. McCarthy's wse as lonk as he chose to rerusin in the city. The offer 1 th the fumd committee t2s «sf roOIms Was was extended igh When the sten w arvived at her pier one of the fund committee of fifty met Mr. Me Carthy To the hotel, and on Mond ommittee will him iy Y 1 X all wa 4 him a itary dinner will be same hotel, rousing for tickets has al accommodations of THE SIR KNIGHTS Have Elected the the Foll Ensuing ng Oflicers for Year. amendments grand en Wore of New (robin, Officers Room John J. 8 y grand ster: Hugh ich grand gen Bowral | . gratd senlo % ual, and the present usage xiii by a close msde of eo publi The ware | and on next ETS wore from th fad netalledd nd codific nid r the pin w for roported itetitute ngton grand ond New Orleans—A Fate, my night Nantag and i at the ig to their mn Bur » 1 $494 girs sitting % head fown the fired alight wound Y hile the ah Fr was in Chinese restaurant keoper, pu i} P oud of the window to se what was : A Hel wm took to his right We erro and i The police » killed the China that the asanit bat he did progros Saunders leiiterat “ a llet in eve, inflict fatal wound, The ne Were arroats flicors clad dat 4 REET man, but Smith ow i vokod, and ¢ + all the oflicors ail wit ON ALTee mn ¥ 3 beet noting Hut ri A Reporter Shools a Politician, NEw ORLEA Eapt I primary a tragedy politician NEWEpRIeT re. , of The City Items, an indulged in some strictures on the part taken by the police in the contest of the Eighth ward As ho was on his way down town in a street car yesterday he was halted by Joseph Baker, leader of the domi nant faction in the Eighth ward, who in quired if he was author of the article, Waters replisd that was, whereupon Baker called him a liar. Waters responded with a blow, and Baker drew his res olver, Waters was only two later with his weapon and his shot followed Baker's al- most instantly After the first shot the two men backed away from each other and Baker fired more shots, Waters not responding. Waters was uninjured, but Baker received a ball through the abdomen and Bladder and will die election « % terday, br Wi fn was fatally + indeed by a Fr Water evening Jag y sninent porter he a second or two Rockaway Beach Has a Blaze. New Yonx, Bept 27.